History A-Level
Elimination of opponents
What Elimination of opponents means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Elimination of opponents
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The removal of rivals in government and party, including the defeat of the Left and Right oppositions and the removal of Old Bolsheviks.
Topics that use Elimination of opponents
- Communist government in the USSR, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Centralisation of power
- De-Stalinisation
- Leadership and control
- Lenin's government
- One-party state
- Party congress and faction ban
- Purges and show trials
- Reform and reaction
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